Ethics and Spirituality in Islam

Sufi Adab
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-33509-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 686 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies

The notion of adab is at the heart of Arab-Islamic culture. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilization, nourished by Greek and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings: good behavior, knowledge of manners, etiquette, rules and belles-lettres and finally, literature. This collection of articles tries to explore how the formulations and reformulations of adab during the first centuries of Islam engage with the crucial period of the first great spiritual masters, exploring the importance of normativity, but also of transgression, in order to define the rules themselves. Assuming that adab is ethics, the articles analyse the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until the modernity.

Contributors are: Alberto F. Ambrosio, Nelly Amri, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Ralf Elger, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Maria Chiara Giorda, Denis Gril, Paul L. Heck, Nathan Hofer, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Annabel Keeler, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Erik S. Ohlander, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Lloyd Ridgeon, Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Florian Sobieroj, Renaud Soler, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Mikko Viitamäki.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiabotti, Francesco

Feuillebois-Pierunek, Eve

Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine

Patrizi, Luca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. A project, a conference, a book
Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois–Pierunek, Catherine Mayeur–Jaouen, Luca Patrizi

Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab
Catherine Mayeur–Jaouen and Luca Patrizi

Part 1: FORMATION AND FORMULATIONS OF SUFI ADAB

Adab et éthique dans le soufisme. Quelques constats et interrogations
Denis Gril

The concept of adab in early Sufism with particular reference to the teachings of Sahl b. 'Abd Allah al–Tustari (d. 283/896)
Annabel Keeler

Adab et éducation spirituelle (tarbiya) chez les maîtres de Nishabur aux 3e/9e et 4e/10e siècles
Jean–Jacques Thibon

Reading Medieval Persian Hagiography through the Prism of Adab: The Case of Asrar al–tawhid
Ahmet T. Karamustafa

Literary Perspectives in Qushayri´s Meditations on Sufi Ethics: The 'Uyun al–ajwiba fi funun al–as'ila
Florian Sobieroj

Éthique et théologie: la pratique de l’adab dans le traité sur les Noms divins
d’Abu l–Qasim 'Abd al–Karim al–Qushayri (al–Tahbir fi 'ilm al–tadhkir)
Francesco Chiabotti

Adab al–muluk: l’utilisation de la terminologie du pouvoir dans le soufisme médiéval
Luca Patrizi

Part 2: ADAB AS ETHICS: NORM AND TRANSGRESSION WITHIN THE THREE MONOTHEISMS

L’invention des adab: ' innovations ' soufies et monachisme dans l’exégèse du verset 57: 27 du Coran
Samuela Pagani

Un système de règles de conduite dans le monachisme chrétien égyptien (5e–7e s.)
Maria–Chiara Giorda

Adab in the Thought of Ghazali (d. 505/1111): In the Service of Mystical Insight
Paul L. Heck

Training the Prophetic Self: adab and riyada in Jewish Sufism
Nathan Hofer

Fellowship and Fraternity in Jewish Pietism of Medieval Egypt
Elisha Russ–Fishbane

Reading Sufi history through adab: The perspectives of Sufis, Jawanmardan and Qalandars
Lloyd Ridgeon

Le saint fou comme modèle de l’éthique
Pierre Lory

Part 3: GENRES OF SUFI ADAB: MANUALS, HAGIOGRAPHIES AND ADAB AS LITERATURE

Situating Group, Self, and Act in the Medieval Sufi ribat: The Kitab zad al–

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Chiabotti is research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology of the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Aix-Marseille (2014). His research focuses on the life and the works of 'Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (d. 1072).

Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek is Senior Lecturer of Persian Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, and research staff member of Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes. She has published numerous books and articles on Sufism and Persian mystical literature.

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is Professor of History of Modern Islam at the Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales, Paris, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published several books on Sufism and popular Islam, especially in Egypt.

Luca Patrizi, Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille and Naples Universities, is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Turin and post-doc Labex at the University of Paris. His main areas of research are Religious and Islamic Studies, and Sufism.